The President of Middlebury College will be stepping down at
the end of the next academic year. Ronald
D. Liebowitz announced earlier today that he will step down June 30, 2015. Liebowitz, Middlebury’s 16th president since
the founding of the College in 1800, has served in the office since 2004. Board Chair Marna Whittington said that the
Board of Trustees will provide information about a presidential search
following the February board meeting.
The FEMA Office in Williston will be closing at the end of
next week. According to officials, a
small group of workers will remain in Vermont
after December 20th but command, support, and administrative
functions will be coordinated with the region 1 office in Boston. At the peak
of FEMA's operations in Vermont
during Irene, there were about 600 employees and contractors working throughout
the state. Currently there are 27
employees and contractors.
Rutland City’s
website is back online but with a slightly new address. The new address is RutlandCity.org. Until last week, it was RutlandCity.com. On Friday, the city’s claim to the .com
expired and a person or organization from Panama
quickly bought the domain. All the
information is the same, it’s just now at RutlandCity.org. And all the e-mail addresses that used to be
at RutlandCity.com are now at RutlandCity.org.
Rutland City
has claim to the new domain for the next 10 years.
Vermont State Police are investigating the theft of 50
gallons of Diesel Fuel from a farm in Shoreham.
Police were called the farm on Shoreham Depot
Road yesterday morning just after 10 o’clock when they discovered that someone
had pried open a box at the farm and stole the fuel from the tank inside. Anyone with information about the theft is
urged to call the state police at 388-4919.
Crossett Brook
Middle School in Duxbury now has Vermont’s
largest school solar array. Gov. Peter
Shumlin and others threw the switch on the system today, inaugurating the
157-kilowatt solar array, the largest such system at a school in the
state. Shumlin was joined by state and
local officials and representatives of the solar power company the installed
the array, SunCommon, and Green Mountain Power.
The 480-panel array can produce enough electricity for about 30 homes
and it’s expected to save the school thousands of dollars in electricity costs.
Vermont’s
attorney general is suing Bank of America for alleged violations of Vermont’s
foreclosure mediation and consumer protection laws. The lawsuit says the bank billed homeowners
in foreclosure for more money than their mediation settlements provided. And it says Bank of America sent mailings to
homeowners containing misrepresentations, including misrepresentations about
the amount of money due the bank and the status of the foreclosure action.
